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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Nuclear family.
(b) The holy trinity.
(c) Original sin.
(d) Evolution.

2. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Fears.
(c) Biological needs.
(d) Sexual desires.

3. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) The mother.
(d) The father.

4. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Need.
(c) Desire.
(d) Hate.

5. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
(a) A vague aim.
(b) An unspecified object.
(c) A definite object.
(d) Roots in reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?

2. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

3. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

4. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

5. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?

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